Hey TooMuchEpoxy - have you seen the Hydrocraft interface? It is the most perfect concept I’ve seen with respect to interface stiffness. I thought you would appreciate it
That’s a pretty tight looking connection. I especially like the hardware running across the joint, a lot of the other socket connections with carbon fuses are prone to cracking around the socket and this probably fixes that.
it does seem like it’s maybe been made intentionally tricky to make adapters more difficult.
I really think though carbon mast goes into metal hole is a winning design. The only thing wrong with it is so easy idiots like myself can throw any old carbon mast in that hole, pour in some epoxy, and make a viable mast.
I’m just happy knowing that if f one makes some kind of amazing magic wing I can actually maybe ride it one day without spending $1500 on their mast. As long as there’s a few brands making simple socket masts I’ll 100% keep potting used carbon masts(just scored a good f one titan 1 mast thsts gonna be chopped and potted!) and riding those brands’ front wings
I’m so frustrated that NL wasted all that time and effort and great masts (I’m riding a v1 now and its FANTASTIC even going back to back with a Cedrus evo surf today) on the design limits imposed by that stupid Takuma connection. If they had just focused on brands with socket connections and made tooling to just mold the connection around the mast instead of using those godawful aluminum bits….
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Just came here to say that any Tuttle style mast/fuse connection either needs to be flat-ish like mikeslab and recent copies or tapered like levitaz, new f-one, unifoil etc.
What must be avoided is non tapered Tuttle like axis. Wiggled my buddies $5k titanium axis setup the other day and felt wobble at the mast fuse joint. With no taper you rely on the bolts and the mast flat at the bottom (of which there is very little) to keep the mast from wobbling the amount of the slip fit of the mast into the fuse. You will always end up with a bit of wobble unless you pot your mast and have to hammer it on every time or tighter the crap out of the bolts. Worst of all worlds, but unlikely to break or wobble more than that small amount.
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